You can try local credit unions or small banks in your city.

Bad credit, no savings, a low-paying W-2 job, etc.

I am in the final stages of writing my contract for my wholesale deal (I meet with the sellers to sign tomorrow) and I just want to make sure this is 100% without a doubt right.So, I have it written in my contract that the EMD will be credited to the escrow account at my title company FOLLOWING the 20 day inspection period.

I bought my third property in another state because 1) I wanted to force myself to learn how to prepare a property for rent without spending a bunch of my own time working on it and 2) I couldn't find deals in my market.The latter was more due to inexperience.

Who is better prepared to become real estate investor - an experienced Property Manager OR an experienced Commercial Real Estate Broker?

Its Home Depot, and they would be willing to give you a credit card with a big line of credit.

I don't have a lot of money saved up and I currently have poor credit 580-600, but I'm interested and dedicating myself to taking the first steps of financial independence by learning the ins and outs of the real estate industry.

During this threat I set up several LLCs to quickly move the properties into and was prepared to do equity stripping through another LLC.  

Talk to several local/regional banks/credit unions.

If you knock $$ off the rent, many tenants will start to find other stuff to try and get "credit" on the rent and it will escalate.....